Brazilian referee Romualdo Arppi Filho, who officiated at the final in Mexico where Argentina won its second world title in 1986 after defeating Germany 3-2, died on Sunday at the age of 84. In that match he showed a yellow card to Diego Armando Maradona, who later lifted the champion’s trophy.
Considered one of Brazil’s best-known referees, Arppi Filho died of kidney complications at the Ana Costa hospital in the city of Santos, in Sao Paulo state, according to his relatives.
Arppi Filho is the second Brazilian to whistle the final in a World Cup after Arnaldo Cézar Coelho in Italy-FRA (3-1) that decided the title in Spain in 1982.
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Born in Santos on January 7, 1939, he began his career as a teenager -at the age of 14- and by the age of 20 he had made it professionally, reaching his peak in the 1980s.
The Brazilian referee also whistled the final of the 1984 Intercontinental Cup, between Argentine Independiente and the English Liverpool in Tokyo (1-0), and participated in the Olympic Games in Mexico (1968), Moscow (1980) and Los Angeles (1984). . ).
After hanging up his whistle, Arppi Filho worked in the real estate business. He leaves behind three children and three grandchildren.
Source: La Verdad
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